Card Overview

The 5136-PFB-ISA card can:

• act as a DP slave

• act as a DP master

• send and receive FDL (layer 2) messages

• send and receive FMS messages

The card supports simultaneous operation in all these modes.

The card supports the standard ProfiBus baud rates of 9.6K, 19.2K, 93.75K,

187.5K, 500K, 750K, 1.5M, 3M, 6M and 12M baud.

In addition, the card has 512 Kbytes of sectored flash memory, for storage of

programs and configuration data. The host computer uses the utility included

on the distribution disk to store a software module into flash memory.

ProfiBus configuration information may also be stored in flash.